Bill Text: TX SB2124 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to an advanced mathematics program for public school students in middle school.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-27 - Effective immediately [SB2124 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2124-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 2124 |
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relating to an advanced mathematics program for public school | ||
students in middle school. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 28, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 28.029 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 28.029. MIDDLE SCHOOL ADVANCED MATHEMATICS PROGRAM. | ||
(a) To increase the number of students who complete advanced | ||
mathematics courses in high school, each school district and | ||
open-enrollment charter school shall develop an advanced | ||
mathematics program for middle school students that is designed to | ||
enable those students to enroll in Algebra I in eighth grade. | ||
(b) Under the program, subject to Subsection (c), a school | ||
district or open-enrollment charter school shall automatically | ||
enroll in an advanced mathematics course each sixth grade student | ||
who performed in the top 40 percent on: | ||
(1) the fifth grade mathematics assessment instrument | ||
administered under Section 39.023(a); or | ||
(2) a local measure that includes the student's fifth | ||
grade class ranking or a demonstrated proficiency in the student's | ||
fifth grade mathematics coursework. | ||
(c) The parent or guardian of a student described by | ||
Subsection (b) may opt the student out of automatic enrollment | ||
under that subsection. | ||
(d) The commissioner may adopt rules to implement this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. As soon as practicable after the effective date | ||
of this Act, each school district or open-enrollment charter school | ||
shall develop the middle school advanced mathematics program | ||
required by Section 28.029, Education Code, as added by this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2124 passed the Senate on | ||
April 27, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 2124 passed the House on | ||
May 12, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 2, | ||
two present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |